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Perl is a language optimized for scanning arbitrary text files, extracting information from those text files, and printing reports based on that information. It's also a good language for many system management tasks. The CPAN is Perl's module repository and is where users should turn first for code ...

I'm using the Perl module Net::FTPSSL and 'rename' does not work, everything else does.
I've verified the file is there and I can rename it using gui based ftp client but not through the Perl module.
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I need to run a Perl script, but make it think that it is in a different timezone (GMT) than the server is configured to use normally.
I would like to do this without modify the existing script, by ...

Server got hacked and a fair amount of files were edited. We noticed that the code that was inserted were typically done between delimiters (e.g. /*e21234*/ blah blah /*/e21234*/). What is the most ...

I'm migrating from one server to another and using perl -MCPAN -eautobundle to work out which modules I should be bringing along.
Some modules are a bit problematic at install-time though (mainly due ...

Installing par packer in solaris 11 is throwing following error. i had used perlgcc but didnt help Has anyone faced the similar issue? How can i install it successfully
# perlgcc Makefile.PL
# make
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I've been following the BugZilla installation documentation and using mod_perl w/ apache2. Everything has gone fairly smooth and bugzilla pages appear to be getting rendered and served correctly, but ...

I am a web developer needing to monitor a vast array of servers with nagios and have to write some perl scripts for it.
Looking into it I found Nagios::Plugin package from CPAN, but the servers don't ...

I am trying to use push cache option of Apache Traffic Server(ATS), to push some content into my cache. I read the documentation, and tried to follow it but I have following questions/problems using ...

I have a Perl script that executes another Perl script inside it:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Getopt::Long qw(:config no_ignore_case bundling_override);
no warnings 'uninitialized';
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Note: This question is about my server configuration giving 504 timeouts.
I made a project here http://www.tryperl.com/ (requires auth with GitHub to sign in). Please be kind, I'm working on to learn ...

I am trying to monitor my legacy zimbra installation (running on an outdated Ubuntu 8.x) from my nagios install (running on a more recent OpenBSD).
The problem is that when I run check_nrpe from the ...

Update: I corrected the below permission issue and I can read the log files dancer generates. There was a small code bug, fixed. So now the logs display nothing, but my POST request still just fails ...

I perfectly configured my server and now I made 2 stupid mistakes, I updated perl along with it's dependencies and I made a dedicated TMP dir and included it in fstab to prevent code execution with a ...

just starting out with perl (trying to get an Request Tracker install working):
For some reason I can't install Cache::Cache! (or rather the tests are failing):
Notes: perl 5.8.8 on CentOS 5.8 Final ...

What's your rationale for when to write a Bash script and when to use a more powerful scripting language (Python, Perl, Ruby, ...)?
I'm finding that very simple scripts are nicer with Bash, but many ...

I would like all mail sent to a particular alias on a Linux machine to be processed by a perl script but sendmail is giving me a "Service unavailable" error and I don't understand what I'm missing.
I ...

I have a perl script that searches through our switches to find which one hosts a given IP address; this script uses net-snmp libraries to poll through a daisy-chain of ethernet switches (think core / ...

I have Perl version version 5.10.1 installed in my CentOS6.0 machine.
I need to install TWiki and it needs some perl modules (see this URL)
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/TWikiInstallationGuide
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I have a CGI script called index.cgi
It is trying to read a log file called 10.128.0.242.2012.sep.20.downloaded.txt under the path /var/log/trafcount/
It appears that it is being blocked by selinux.
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I have a CGI script called index.cgi
It is trying to read a log file called 10.128.0.242.2012.sep.20.downloaded.txt under the path /var/log/trafcount/
It appears that it is being blocked by selinux. ...